HR: 1340h
AN: H13A-0960    [Abstracts]
TI: Environmental Monitoring in a Box
AU: * Barrenetxea, G
EM: guillermo.barrenetxea@epfl.ch
AF: School of Computer and Communication Science, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL-I&C-LCAV Station 14, Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland
AU: Couach, O
EM: olivier.couach@epfl.ch
AF: School of Architecture, Civil, and Environmental Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL-ENAC-EFLUM Station 2, Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland
AU: Ingelrest, F
EM: francois.ingelrest@epfl.ch
AF: School of Computer and Communication Science, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL-I&C-LCAV Station 14, Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland
AU: Krichane, M
EM: mounir.krichane@epfl.ch
AF: School of Computer and Communication Science, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL-I&C-LCAV Station 14, Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland
AU: Parlange, M
EM: parc.parlange@epfl.ch
AF: School of Architecture, Civil, and Environmental Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL-ENAC-EFLUM Station 2, Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland
AU: Vetterli, M
EM: martin.vetterli@epfl.ch
AF: School of Computer and Communication Science, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL-I&C-LCAV Station 14, Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland
AB: Current data collection techniques are rather limited and make use of very expensive sensing stations, leading to a lack of appropriate environmental observations. We present SensorScope, a collaborative project between environmental and network researchers, that aims at providing an efficient and cheap out-of-the-box monitoring system. Sensorscope is based on a self-organized multi-hop wireless network, composed of a large number of solar powered sensing stations deployed over an area of interest. These sensing stations gather various information about their environment, such as air temperature and humidity, skin temperature, solar radiation, wind speed and direcction, precipitation, soil moisture, and soir watter content. SensorScope falls into the category of time-driven networks, as the stations intermittently transmit environmental data to a sink. The latter, in turn, is able to relay this information to a database server which makes all data publicly available in real-time by means of a Goggle Maps-based web interface. The main objective of the SensorScope project is to provide a low-cost and reliable WSN-based system for environmental monitoring to a wide community. It improves present data collection techniques with the latest technology, while exceeding the requirements of most environmental research. The Sensorscope system has already been sucessfully used in three different measurement campaigns: a glacier deployment at Plain Morte (Valais, Switzerland), a wetland monitoring program (Neuchatel, Switzerland), and an alpine deployment to study rock avalanches (Valais, Switzerland)
UR: http://sensorscope.epfl.ch
DE: 3394 Instruments and techniques
SC: Hydrology [H]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting